In the futur , in a world of media and war these men need to be equiped with the best for video and sound , but when they travel in dangerous countries , they also need the best for survival and infiltration.

I like how it is evolving. Your most recent sketch seems to be going back towards a more human-like stance. I really like sketch 03 - the exaggerated proportions are cool, as is the hunched-over posture.

Man it's hard to keep track of who is doing what.

Riddick

03 March 2004, 08:26 AM

That is a good idea to give him more flesh.
Good luck

Haven

03 March 2004, 03:26 PM

This is a great idea. I'm writing a novel and had a similar kind of reporter in the future except he was in the dangerous Urban Jungle of a society gone wild. Anyways, I'm quite interested to the fruition of your efforts. Great start. LOL you know reporters love to gibber jabber so I was thinking you might focus more on the mouth piece besides his survival capabilities. I love the video cameras being part of the eyes. Again great idea.

ye thanks all , yes i agree with you francis , in this new one i tried to work on the flesh side , with a huge carachter working for urban construction etc

EmpY

03 March 2004, 12:12 AM

Fantastic sketch!!
That thing looks awesome!!!
:buttrock:

duddlebug

03 March 2004, 10:31 AM

ooooh...lovely line work!!

And there's some really nice mark making (and texture in the last one). Lovely broad strokes. It's nice to see more interetsing marks than the usual airbrush or even the more expressive brush strokes you see a lot from Painter. Are these photoshop?

It's almost like print-making (Lino cuts or something?)

ANd there's a nice balance between the subjects and the space around them.

fab.

Nuro

03 March 2004, 12:49 PM

impressive research works :applause:
I like that :thumbsup:

harnelbe

03 March 2004, 12:52 PM

:bounce:
i like the treatment of the right arm of your last post
there is a good opposition between edges and rounds very interesting !!

funshark

03 March 2004, 10:06 PM

yeah viag!
i love the last concept ( very gigantic cam or mic, no? Or what else? :] )

go go go o/

viag

03 March 2004, 10:26 PM

Thx again

I worked on the last concept, adding lot of flesh and some mini town living on this flesh tank , a war machine eating corpse on the battleground.

see the post below (update)

Friedric P

03 March 2004, 11:07 PM

Wooh. I really like the concept of the mini Town. :thumbsup: I think you should go on in this way, it's pretty original. But the warmachine... It's more classic, I think, than the reporter or the carryer. :hmm: Maybe juste a kind of living town could be enough and more subtile.
BTW, good luck!! :)

very cool creature design...
And lots of expression in the strokes, It will be interesting to see this when it has colour.

Simon

fredconv

03 March 2004, 07:47 AM

hi man ^^

i really love your style !!! :beer:

and good research as well !
cant wait to see more from your work !
:thumbsup:

duddlebug

03 March 2004, 10:05 AM

I love the mini-town idea!!

It suddenly has a grand scale about it.

I hope you can carry through some of the maks and textures. Is this the composition? Or are you gonna try it from different angles?

hdri

03 March 2004, 11:59 AM

Good work, and very very nice the way your concept has evolved! I think you've reached a very interesting idea. Pull it to the limits!!!!!!!
Congratulations!

flyingP

03 March 2004, 12:19 PM

Getting in a bit late here, but also just wanted to add a big :thumbsup: , as that really is indeed a very nice style, that and I rather like the concepts.

Frood

03 March 2004, 02:09 PM

Yeah, the micro-city is a nice, very nice idea! I think this concept is original enough to be pushed further than the classical war-machine thing.
T'as mis le doigt sur un bon truc là !!!
It's like a colony of very smart and evil fleas on a powerfull dog.
Your sketches are getting better and so each time, hope you'll go on!
Bravo mon pote !
:applause:

goldi76

03 March 2004, 03:03 PM

WOW! :thumbsup:

You could really made a novel about living in that mobile city. And imagine the colosal war that could happen when two of those city-bearers would fight.

Great concept!

batmel

03 March 2004, 08:21 PM

just great.. you really did capture the whole theme of this challenge.
good work!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

Solomon

03 March 2004, 08:36 PM

beautiful style!!

Newke

03 March 2004, 08:50 PM

This reminds me of the trailer of Onimusha 3, where the hero attack a huge beast who hold a city ruled by a demon.

hey thx a lot all , yes i think the city concept is good , i will work on the integration of the town with mecanic and flesh now.

Here is just a little closeup of the head :)

crazybread

03 March 2004, 10:53 PM

I'm also a fan of the concept. I especially love his huge arm with all those pistons. Will this be your final layout or are you gonna change his pose? ...just curious because I really like his tired resting look.

viag

03 March 2004, 10:56 PM

oh no its just concept , the lineart will be in a environnment with a more 3dish position but with the same feeling :)

harnelbe

03 March 2004, 11:18 PM

Viag
but with the same feeling

The feeling is incredibly good!
My godness !!! :bounce: :buttrock:

The texture is incredible !
i hope we will see all oyour creatures
in you CG !!! i love them all !!!
I wouldn'tlike to met one of them in a corridor !!
i'll wait tomorrow morning for going to the toilet :).
:D

Tommy Lee

03 March 2004, 05:33 AM

Getting better'n better:thumbsup:

ravioli_rancher

03 March 2004, 08:45 PM

Viag,

Scrolling through the challenges, I feel its a shame the 3D contestants get so many nice hardware prizes compared to the 2D category, as most the 2D entries, particularly yours, are so much more inventive and well-thought out.

And intimidating.

Which is one of the reasons so many more people have entered the 3D challenge.

You 2D is just plain scary, man.

I'm anxious for more of this excellent show!

ralphymeijer

03 March 2004, 09:08 PM

Great concept!!!:buttrock:

Wouldn't want to meet this guy at night in a dark alley.:eek:

harnelbe

03 March 2004, 05:39 AM

You are keeping the suspens viag
i'm sure the last update will be amazing
I put up your topic to put some pressure :)
lol :wip:

here is a bigger pic to show more details
the town side , environnement and lot of details will come :)

harnelbe

04 April 2004, 09:23 PM

:beer: :buttrock:
Yesss Viag !!!
Very nice modifications :)

What could increase the emotion of the picture could put a close up of the left leg
as we could see windows with people inside! which could make understand bettre the gigantism of the Gig'Othic Creature!

Luiz Wilhelm

04 April 2004, 09:37 PM

:drool: whow its being great alot nicolas :thumbsup:

im excited too see the final version:bowdown:

:p

InTheCity

04 April 2004, 07:06 AM

These are wonderful beautiful concept sketches. I'll be watching you very closely. Keep up the creative work.

I think it looks very impressive.Beautiful designs and style..............I want to build this in 3D sometime,we can have it run through some set pieces i have created..............Smash everthing..................Now this would be a sight to see coming at you in the real World...............;)

Very nice work viag...................very nice............:beer:

EmpY

04 April 2004, 11:17 AM

Fantastic!!!
Really looking up for your updates!
just great
:thumbsup:

borderland

04 April 2004, 12:54 PM

Nice to see some original ideas. Everyone's doing great work but your idea is strong too.

Nuro

04 April 2004, 03:34 PM

For first step is great ,
I want to see the environment and more details now.

As said by Virtuoso if you want to
collab together to modeling one of your
creatures, no problem ! i'm one of the
guys lol.

It's when you click on the picture to get
the biggest one that CG is amazing, in the
biggest size, it will be impressive !
keep it up !

pigwater

04 April 2004, 10:45 AM

viag ...i know this thread ... yah, i stopped by a week or too ago ... could of swore i posted .. i think i even grabbed it for a wallpaper ... fabulous stuff ...it's even better than when i last saw it

i love the sloppy skin action .. that unhealthy look it's got going for it :thumbsup:

i got this thread marked now .. i'll be back

thanks for the reminder:thumbsup: :applause:

Luiz Wilhelm

04 April 2004, 02:59 PM

:beer: whow nicolas:thumbsup: its awesome!

im excited too see the final version:beer:

:bounce:

Cygnus-X

04 April 2004, 03:45 PM

Wow impressive, your concept is fantastic:buttrock: I am waiting for new update keep it up:thumbsup:

This is getting impressive. The details on the skin and the machine parts come along nicely. :buttrock:

But I regret just one thing: I don't feel this beast is as gigantic as on your previous pics (before you changed the point of view). I think it may come from the global perspective in the image. The edges in the background seem way too high to me, and the "sun" and the clouds way too big compared to the town.
Maybe you could leave some parts of the things out of frame too.
It should BE so HUGE, you know what I'm mean?

Okay, that's a lot of speaking (you know me buddy), hope it can help you in any way!
:beer:

NinjaA55N

04 April 2004, 10:24 AM

I have to sign on that thread as well :) The concept is great, powerfull... I think that u should use a lot of details on that monster, to show the size of it. What colors will u use in this one???

viag

04 April 2004, 10:49 AM

thx and "merci" all

Ye frood the gigantic feeling will come caus this is just a temporary environnment , i will work on this with the color ;)

ninjaAssn , i will use some colored grays and lot of complementary colors and maybe an extra fullbright color to show up some details
I need to work on the transparency side of the flesh too

Great work, i've seen your drawings in sijun and ca.... i like very much your first sketches, very dinamic.

keep it up!

XIA

04 April 2004, 08:25 PM

Yes! Man...coming along Awesome!!!

vincentvv

04 April 2004, 10:27 PM

oh...gotta visit Sijun:)
Same profilname?

masahiro

04 April 2004, 11:51 PM

Really powerful black and white drawings! I like them a lot. Good style! :thumbsup:

viag

04 April 2004, 07:05 AM

thx a lot guys

yes vincent_v i have the same nickname on sijun , but i didnt post since a long time , i need to comeback to the fabulous speedpainting thread :)

Color is coming , i need time to work on the environmment and the flesh material , but i will update soon :beer:

Ste

04 April 2004, 02:07 PM

Great idea!
Nicely drawn still has all the movement and energy! Fare play man!:buttrock:

Aedilhum

04 April 2004, 10:26 PM

Nice drawings. I started at the last post of it and couldn't tell what it was so started moving back until I figured out that that was a city on top of him. Pretty cool concept. I would add something a little more recognizable as a certain size to help sell the scale of the thing.
cheers, Jared

Tremoside

04 April 2004, 10:40 AM

Hi viag,

thanks for your comments on my page.

I have to notice your name...your works here are wonderful. these drawings are excellent, and you have a very good balance between details and main proportions. This is a quite heavy thing and as I see you can hold this valuable tool in your hands...:bowdown:

KEEP UP THIS WORK:buttrock:

JPCohet

04 April 2004, 10:50 AM

Thanks for your comment on my thread.
I like the palette color of your drawings.

:beer:
GREAT update you have done [b]viag[b]!
home sweet home where i would like my personnal office, how much for a rent ?

:buttrock:

Virtuoso

04 April 2004, 10:35 PM

I don't think I would want to live there..............But a wild and action packed weekend would be fun once in a while..............very rich and detailed indepth colors........Just love the look of it all,one very nice piece of work Viag.......:buttrock: :beer:

Squibbit

04 April 2004, 10:47 PM

"I don't think I would want to live there.........."

rofl

me neither , buddy :)

Khar3D

04 April 2004, 11:24 PM

Apocalyptic!!!!!:bounce:

awesome..................

Yeahhh..........:buttrock: I love this.........:love:

londero

04 April 2004, 05:46 AM

your images are fantastics, great job!:thumbsup:

londero

04 April 2004, 06:30 AM

your work is great!:thumbsup:

Nuro

04 April 2004, 12:00 PM

the color is powerfull , i like that , impressive details

Close up version please :wip: :wip: :bounce:

MOA[F2d]

04 April 2004, 12:06 PM

it is terrible !

congratulation ! :thumbsup:

very nice work !

Luiz Wilhelm

04 April 2004, 04:33 PM

nicola you are very gifted! that final version its awesome!

you know how too play with colors my friend!

hope:thumbsup: with you win some prize!:applause:

:bounce:

the-mighty-m

04 April 2004, 06:33 PM

hmmm....
its really cool.
what a mindwarp it would be living in a place like that!

:bowdown:

adrianis

04 April 2004, 06:50 PM

awesome, original :eek: I like the colors!

Good luck! :applause:

viag

05 May 2004, 09:50 PM

thx a lot all ! what can i say , just thats i really enjoyed to work on this challenge :beer:

OKMER

05 May 2004, 12:22 AM

:surprised ..Really great job,man!!!There's only 2 things(little things:D )that i like a little bit less(sorry,it's been a long time since i've talking(writing)english:blush: )
It's that orange spots(spotlikes)in the sky,or maybe the missing of blur in the sky(floodness or flowness:hmm: ,don't know sorry).And the second thing is that i feel like there are missing some highlight's,or is it the shadow that's a little bit to clear for my feelings,i don't know.
Anyway these are really very little things,because your work rock's really hard man!!!!!!!
congratulions,man very impressive!!!

I haven't posted in your thread since quite early on... sorry about that. But the final image looks great. And i'd agree with some of the other posts.... the colour is really nice... i reckon you made the right choices when you were thinking about the palette.
How about some close ups...?

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